Digitivalva pulicariae
| Digitivalva pulicariae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Acrolepiidae |
| Genus: | Digitivalva |
| Species: | D. pulicariae |
| Binomial name | |
| Digitivalva pulicariae (Klimesch, 1956) | |
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Digitivalva pulicariae is a moth of the family Acrolepiidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Portugal, Fennoscandia, the Baltic region and Poland.[1]
The wingspan is about 13 mm.[2] Adults are on wing from August to, after overwintering, May of the following year.[3]
The larvae feed on Pulicaria dysenterica. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine initially has the form of a short corridor that starts at the midrib or the leaf base. It later becomes a whitish or brownish full depth blotch. The frass is deposited in irregularly dispersed grains. A single larva creates several mines. Pupation takes place outside of the mine in a reticulate cocoon, under a leaf or among litter.[4] The larvae are yellowish green with a brown head. They can be found from June to July.
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